ON ADAPTIVE CENSORED CFAR DETECTION by Loizos Anastasiou Prastitis A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering January, 1993TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF PREVIOUS WORK 1 Ce rrtrt™—OOO—OO—™ONCNCSCSCSCSC”SCNCOC_CaCT. i 1.2 Radar Signal Detection ©... 00.0.0... 000000000, 2 1.3 The CA-CFAR Detector... 20... 00. e cece eee ee 4 14 Threshold Exceedance Probability .................., 10 1.5 The CA-CFAR Detector in Nonhomogeneous Background Environment 11 1.6 CFAR Detectors 2.2... eee 13 1.7 Dissertation Organization .............00000--20 0, 16 2 THE GO AND SO-CFAR DETECTORS IN TIME DIVERSITY COMBINING 31 21 Introduction 6 eee 31 2.2 The GO and SO-CFAR Detectors for a Single Pulse Transmission... 32 2.3 The GO and SO-CFAR Detectors in Time Diversity Transmission. . 35 2.4 Results 39 2.5 Summary and Conclusions 41 3 AN AUTOMATIC CENSORED CELL AVERAGING CFAR DETECTOR IN NONHOMOGENEOUS CLUTTER 50 3.1 Introduction 6 eee 50 3.2 The ACGO-CFAR Detector... 2.0.0... ee eee ee 52 3.3 The ACCA-CFAR Detector... 2.0.00... 20.00... 0004 54 3.4 Analysis of the ACCA-CFAR Detector................4 56 3.5 Time processing requirements... ......000 000000 cee 60 3.6 Results 2... eee 61 io. summary, and|Conclusions| 9 re gr eet 66 viii4 AN ADAPTIVE SPIKY INTERFERENCE REJECTION CFAR DETECTOR 88 4.1 Introduction 2.2... ee eee 88 oe ——OOCOCOCOCOC‘COCs*tés__—tsCsN 90 4.3 The GCMLD Detector... 0... eee ee eee eee 92 4.4 The ASIR-CFAR Detector... 0.0... eee cece ee 4 4.5 Analysis of the ASIR-CFAR Detector ........0.0.00005 97 46 Results eee eee 100 4.7 Summary and Conclusions... 2.2. eee 106 5 DATA DISCRIMINATOR AVERAGING CFAR DETECTOR IN MULTIPLE TARGETS AND NON-HOMOGENEOUS CLUTTER. 132 B.l Introduction 2... eee eee 132 5.2 The TM-CFAR Detector... 22... eee eee eee ee 138 rr —™—r—S—sr——S—CiCCSCiCiéCis_—_diszs:i'st. 134 5.4 Analysis of the DD-CFAR Detector... 0.0.0.0 00000005 138 BS Results eee eee eee 142 5.6 Summary and Conclusions... 2... ee ee eee 148 6 OPTIMUM DETECTION OF RAYLEIGH SIGNALS IN NONSTATIONARY NOISE-THE (RCA) CFAR DETECTOR 176 —s—r—r—S—r—r—S—SsNSCNCC“iCONiasC‘CONiC*Cisrisri_C_C_C_CsSs 176 6.2 The RCA-CFAR Detector... 0... eee ee eee 1i7 6.3 Analysis of the RCA-CFAR detector... 0.2.0.0 00 000005 178 64 Results eee 182 6.5 Summary and Conclusions .. 2... 0. ee ee ee 184 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 190 APPENDIX A 194 Scaling Constants of the CA,GO and SO-CFAR Detectors ......